Is AKlo going wobbly on Israel?

November 22, 2024

Of course not, but AIPAC wants to make sure

Tina signs on to going after Hawley, Cruz

January 22, 2021

Well, I’ll be darned. The Democratic senators — Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ron Wyden of Oregon, Tina Smith of Minnesota, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Tim Kaine of Virginia and Sherrod Brown of Ohio — said the question for the Senate to determine is not whether Cruz and Hawley had […]

by Dan Burns

What a great chance for Senators Klobuchar and Smith to show some real gumption

January 8, 2021

I wrote this, on another blog, when Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made her POTUS run official, in 2019. AKlo’s political approach has always been to pick the safest position on every issue, and stay there as if welded down. It’s made her electorally invulnerable in Minnesota, and has absolutely nothing to do with being a […]

by Dan Burns

“Eliminate” means kill, Mark and Tina

January 9, 2020

From the January 7th edition of the Star Tribune, a letter to the editor: In the wake of Trump’s altogether proper decision to send the world’s foremost terrorist to the hell he deserved, many on the left are issuing the all-too-typical challenges that our president is marching the nation closer to war. Nonsense. This president […]

by Steve Timmer

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Vote for Richard Painter—But I Do

August 11, 2018

An endorsement of Richard Painter by Professor Mark Osler

by Steve Timmer

The longest, saddest, most defensive endorsement ever

August 10, 2018

The long and whiney road . . .

by Steve Timmer

The anatomy of a smear

August 5, 2018

If a person — such as myself — posts information favorable to Senate candidate Richard Painter — or @RWPUSA, as he is known on Twitter to his 500,000 followers, for example — it won’t be long before this is thrown at you, often with a bilious and puerile demand for an apology. You can check my own Twitter threads at […]

by Steve Timmer

Sitting around the campfire singing Kumbaya

August 3, 2018

A letter in the Strib on August 3, 2018: To my dear fellow Democrats, especially those who wrote the Aug. 2 letters with such disdain for the DFL Party and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith: Time to check your purity and single-issue politics at the door and draw attention to the issues that unite us. Look […]

by Steve Timmer

Richard Painter for U.S. Senate

July 30, 2018

August 3rd: Now with important updates

by Steve Timmer

Banking on the gullibility of voters

July 26, 2018

Senator Tina Smith has been busy backing and filling on her first legislative initiative, the odious “Smith Amendment” attached to the National Defense Authorization Act that would have lept over the courts and the pesky litigants suing PolyMet and the Forest Service over a proposed land swap. I suspect that Sen. Smith knew the deal […]

by Steve Timmer

Stamping out heretics and apostates

July 16, 2018

The auto de fé will occur on the street right after the meeting

by Steve Timmer

Mark Osler on Richard Painter

July 9, 2018

Mark Osler is the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas. Professor Osler is a nationally-recognized expert on sentencing disparities and the effective and humane use of clemency and the presidential pardon power in criminal law. He manages a clemency clinic at St. Thomas where students and staff assist […]

by Steve Timmer